Exogenous (automatic) attention to emotional stimuli: a review

L Carretié - Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, 2014‏ - Springer
Current knowledge on the architecture of exogenous attention (also called automatic, bottom-
up, or stimulus-driven attention, among other terms) has been mainly obtained from studies …

Brain mechanisms for emotional influences on perception and attention: What is magic and what is not

G Pourtois, A Schettino, P Vuilleumier - Biological psychology, 2013‏ - Elsevier
The rapid and efficient selection of emotionally salient or goal-relevant stimuli in the
environment is crucial for flexible and adaptive behaviors. Converging data from …

A fast pathway for fear in human amygdala

C Méndez-Bértolo, S Moratti, R Toledano… - Nature …, 2016‏ - nature.com
A fast, subcortical pathway to the amygdala is thought to have evolved to enable rapid
detection of threat. This pathway's existence is fundamental for understanding nonconscious …

[ספר][B] The Oxford handbook of event-related potential components

SJ Luck, ES Kappenman - 2011‏ - books.google.com
Event-related potentials (ERPs) have been used for decades to study perception, cognition,
emotion, neurological and psychiatric disorders, and lifespan development. ERPs consist of …

Affective picture processing: an integrative review of ERP findings

JK Olofsson, S Nordin, H Sequeira, J Polich - Biological psychology, 2008‏ - Elsevier
The review summarizes and integrates findings from 40 years of event-related potential
(ERP) studies using pictures that differ in valence (unpleasant-to-pleasant) and arousal (low …

ERPs and the study of emotion

G Hajcak, A Weinberg, A MacNamara… - The Oxford handbook …, 2012‏ - books.google.com
Interest in the neuroscience of emotion has increased dramatically over the course of the
last two decades. The rapid growth and popularity, however, have come with a definitional …

Differentiating neural responses to emotional pictures: Evidence from temporal‐spatial PCA

D Foti, G Hajcak, J Dien - Psychophysiology, 2009‏ - Wiley Online Library
Consistent with the notion that emotional stimuli receive preferential attention and
perceptual processing, many event‐related potential (ERP) components appear sensitive to …

Top-down predictions in the cognitive brain

K Kveraga, AS Ghuman, M Bar - Brain and cognition, 2007‏ - Elsevier
The human brain is not a passive organ simply waiting to be activated by external stimuli.
Instead, we propose that the brain continuously employs memory of past experiences to …

An affective circumplex model of neural systems subserving valence, arousal, and cognitive overlay during the appraisal of emotional faces

AJ Gerber, J Posner, D Gorman, T Colibazzi, S Yu… - Neuropsychologia, 2008‏ - Elsevier
Increasing evidence supports the existence of distinct neural systems that subserve two
dimensions of affect—arousal and valence. Ten adult participants underwent functional …

Effects of low-level visual information and perceptual load on P1 and N170 responses to emotional expressions

S Schindler, M Bruchmann, B Gathmann, R Moeck… - Cortex, 2021‏ - Elsevier
Emotional facial expressions lead to modulations of early event-related potentials (ERPs).
However, it has so far remained unclear how far these modulations represent face-specific …